Garment-fastener.



P. R. GRUBER & M. SELIG'.

GARMENT FASTENER.

APPLICATIO'N FILED MAY 2.1917.

1 ,278,457. Patented Sept. 10, 1918.

, Fl? G/WEEE- PAUL It. GBUBEE AND MOSES SELIG, OF NEW YORK. N. Y.

GARMENT-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented Sept. 1c, 1918.

Application filed May 2, 1917. Serial No. 165,917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PAUL R. GRUBER and Moses SnLIc, citizens of theUnited States, residing at New rYork city, in the county of New York,State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGarment-Fastencrs; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to garment fasteners, and is directed moreparticularly to a separable fastener by means of which adjacent portionsof a garment may be quickly and effectively connected.

An object of the present invention is to provide a fastener of the abovenature which will combine all of the useful features disclosedin myco-pending applications filed March :20, 1917, Serial Numbers 156,134and 156,135 and at the same time simplify the construction thereof andconsequently reduce to the minimum the cost of manufacture.

With the above and other objects of similar nature in view, theinvention consists in the construction, combination and arrangements ofparts, set forth in and. falling within the scope of the appended claim.

in the drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved fastenerassociated with adjacentportions of a garment and in disconnectedrelation.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation illustrating the initial step in assemblingthe fastener; and,

Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the members connected, a portion of thegarment being broken away.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawing, there isshown adjacent port-ions A of a garment with which the invention isassociated, the latter being designated generally at B.

Specifically the fastener consists of a member 5 formed from a length ofwire and provided with an eye 6 and attaching loops 7 through the mediumof which it is secured to the garment by stitching, the inner portions 8of the loop being straight and extending in spaced parallel relation fora purpose to subsequently appear. The other element of the fastener isshown at 9 and is also constructed from a straight length of wire thatis first bent upon itself intermediate its ends as shown at 10 with theresultant end portions similarly directed angularly adjacent the bendand providing therewith a hook 11. The' remaining portions of the wireare next bent at a reverse angle as at 12 and continued from the hook inspaced parallel relation to provide the shank portion 13 of the member.I

From the shank 13, one end of the wire is bent circularly upon itself toprovide an attaching eye 14. The other end of the Wire is considerablylonger and is first bent circularly away from itself in the plane of theeye 14 to provide a second attaching eye 15, then directed angularly asat 16 away from said eye, then continued at 17 in parallel offsetrelation to the shank B and finally bent as at 18 to enter the spacebetween those portions of the wire which form the hooks ll:

In use the fastener is arranged and secured by stitching upon adjacentportions of a garment as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. Toconnect the members 5 and 9, the hook 11 is engaged in the eye 6 asshown in Fig. 2 and the member -9 then swung bodily over the member 5with the eye as a fulcrum to bring the offset portions 17 into positionto pass between and snap beyond the portions 8 of the loops 7, saidportions 8 spreading to permit of this and returning to normal positionto holdthe members so assembled: It will be noted that the centralportion of the eye 6 is straight as indicated at 19, and provides a seatfor the hook 11 to prevent its slipping on the eye as will be readilyunderstood,

The members 5 and 9 are in this manner securely connected. and serve toeffectively maintain the adjacent portions A of the garment inoverlapping relation, while; they may be conveniently disconnected whendesired in a manner that is obvious.

It will be noted that by this arrangement the members 5 and 9 whenassembled lie completely concealed between the overlapping portions ofthe garment and will therefore not present an unsightly appearance as dothe ordinary hook and eye fasteners.

lVhat I claim is A separable fastener, comprising a member having an eyeportion. spaced attaching loops and parallel snapping portions disposedinwardly. of said attaching loops, and a second member formed from asingle length of wire bent upon itself with its end portions adjacentthe bend being directed angularly to provide therewith a hook and beingthen bent at a reverse angle and continuedin spaced parallel relationone of said ends being terminally rebent circularly to provide anattaching eye and the other of said ends being of greater len th andfirst bent circularly away from itsel to provide a second attaching eyedisposed in the plane of the first mentioned attaching eye, said lastnamed end being then directed an ularly from its eye and continued inpara lel ofiset relation to said spaced parallel portions and beingfinally bent and directed between the hook forming portions of the wire,said book being arranged to' detacha-bly engage the eye of the firstmember and 15 PAUL R. GRUBER. MOSES SELIG.

Witnesses I SOLOMON A. WELLINGTON, SADIE E. WELLINGTON.

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